hey dopes, get your movie references correct... in the original "the manchurian candidate" it wasnt the brainwashed ex-pow who killed on command that was the "manchurian candidate", but his step-father (the veep running mate married to the shooter's handler/mother), who according to the plot was supposed to become the presidential "candidate" after the ex-pow shot the original candidate at the presidential convention. mom/wife/handler was the brains behind his run and joe mccarthy-esque rhetoric, and a "fellow traveler" sleeper agent that was in red china's pocket, hence the title "the manchurian candidate"... what a buncha morans!!